Chapter 146 Accepting the Mission

Qiao Yu led the four people to the mission hall of the Mercenary Hunter Center in silence.

They all noticed the strange atmosphere between Qiao Yu and the girl. They had never seen Qiao Yu like this before, and had no idea what was going on between them, so they all followed Qiao Yu in silence.

Cheng Sinian, holding Luo Zhenzhen in his arms, walked side by side with Yu Qingchuan behind Qiao Yu and Jiang Zhan.

Yu Qingchuan nudged Cheng Sinian beside him with his elbow, winked and nodded at Qiao Yu in front of him.

The expression on his face was: What should I do? Go and persuade him!

Cheng Sinian raised his eyebrows and replied with his eyes: Why don’t you go?

While he was making eye contact with Yu Qingchuan, Cheng Sinian suddenly noticed that Luo Zhenzhen in his arms was gently tugging at the corner of his clothes.

He looked down at her and saw that Luo Zhenzhen's big, wet eyes were full of worry and helplessness, with a hint of dependence and pleading on him.

Cheng Sinian's heart softened, as if being gently rubbed by a kitten's paw pads, numb and itchy.

Cheng Sinian scratched her little nose and sighed softly with resignation.

"Qiao Yu."

When Qiao Yu heard Cheng Sinian calling her, she quickly stopped and turned around to look at him.

"That girl called Tang Ran, do you want us to help you..." Cheng Sinian raised his free hand and made a gesture as if he was wiping his neck. "Since she betrayed you and you can't bring yourself to do it, why don't you let us help you?"

Yu Qingchuan and Luo Zhenzhen looked at Cheng Sinian in surprise when they heard this.

Can you see this?

Cheng Sinian raised his eyebrows but did not explain.

He studied psychology, so he often subconsciously pays attention to people's subtle expressions or movements and then analyzes them.

He just saw it very clearly. When Qiao Yu faced the girl named Tang Ran, the emotions on his face were very complicated.

Vigilance, struggle, disappointment, anger...

These are all emotions that can easily arise after experiencing betrayal.

And according to Cheng Sinian's speculation, this betrayal is most likely related to Jiang Zhan.

Because the first time Qiao Yu saw the girl, he put his arms around Jiang Zhan and did not let go for a moment while talking to her.

This is a very possessive and protective action.

Therefore, Cheng Sinian could almost reasonably conclude that Qiao Yu was very opposed to Tang Ran getting close to Jiang Zhan.

To sum up, we can basically infer the general story.

Cheng Sinian is not bloodthirsty, but he protects his people.

In his heart, Qiao Yu has long been his family.

Since Tang Ran made Qiao Yu unhappy and Qiao Yu seemed unable to bring himself to do it, he naturally didn't mind helping Qiao Yu get rid of this "knot in his heart".

After hearing what Cheng Sinian said, Qiao Yu was a little surprised, but soon curled the corners of his lips.

She looked at the worried eyes of several people, took a deep breath, exhaled, chuckled and shook her head, "No need. Her crime does not deserve death."

Although Tang Ran did betray her in his previous life, at least she never hurt her.

As a friend, she didn't want to kill him.

As long as Tang Ran doesn't bother her in this life, they can just drift apart in peace.

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When Qiao Yu and his four companions arrived at the Mercenary Hunter Center, the flow of people here was much greater than when they came here to register for the team yesterday morning.

The mission hall was especially bustling with people.

When Qiao Yu and the other four entered, they attracted a lot of attention, but they were used to it, so they didn't care and walked straight to the task announcement area on the side.

The entire wall of the task announcement area was covered in a transparent acrylic board. It had small raised slots for palm-sized, colorful cards. Each card was inscribed in black marker with the task's name, requirements, deadline, and penalty for non-compliance.

Mercenary hunting teams can accept any missions they want. If they like a mission, they can simply go over, take the card, and register at the mission acceptance office.

The color of the cards is also indicated below the board: level one tasks are white, level two are green, level three are blue, level four are yellow, level five are purple, and level six tasks are red.

But now there are no purple or red tasks on the board, and even yellow tasks are very few.

On the wall next to the task board is a mercenary hunting team ranking list, which shows the team name, number of people and total accumulated points.

However, only the top 100 are included, and "Big Pendulum" is not on the list because its points are too low.

The names of the top three teams are "Tianxing", "Zhaoguang" and "Vulture".

When Qiao Yu saw the name "Vulture", his eyes curved, and he pointed at the name and looked at the four people beside him with a stifling smile. His face was full of ridicule, as if to say: Look! This name is so funny, there are actually people with such a name!

Yu Qingchuan didn't find the name funny. Instead, he frowned slightly in frustration.

Although the team was probably named after the animal "vulture", he still felt it was very rude!

It's really no respect for eagles!

You are bald! Your whole family is bald!

Cheng Sinian also rolled his eyes silently.

The pot calling the kettle black

How dare the person who came up with the name "Big Pendulum" laugh at others?!

Cheng Sinian ignored Qiao Yu and continued to look down. Then he found the twelfth-ranked team on the leaderboard at a glance, because the name of this team was "Xingchen".

Cheng Sinian gritted his teeth. Good boy, it's you who made our team called "The Pendulum", right?

Qiao Yu and his friends had previously asked Ding Baian the name of their team, and Cheng Sinian also looked for it by the way.

"Zhengfeng", ranked 20th.

Cheng Sinian raised his eyebrows. Ding Baian and the others did a pretty good job.

In the lower right corner of the leaderboard, there is a total number of mercenary hunting teams, and the number currently displayed is 535.

There is also a line of notes at the bottom: The top three teams in the leaderboard will receive extra surprise rewards at the end of the month!

Qiao Yu picked and chose in the mission area, and selected seventeen first-level missions in one go, ready to take them all.

Most of the first-level tasks are very simple. They are nothing more than chopping some wood and digging some soil and rocks in the mutant forest around the base to make building materials, or finding some mutant plants and sending them to the research institute for research. There is no technical content, so the task rewards are also small.

A first-level task will only reward five crystal cores and ten points. Some tasks will also reward a small piece of bread or a small amount of snacks, plus ten points.

If it weren't for those ten points, Qiao Yu wouldn't even look at this kind of task.

There is no way. Only teams with a cumulative score of 200 points can accept the second-level task. They can only accept the first level now.

Qiao Yu's action of taking out seventeen cards in a row shocked everyone around him.

Although the base has not set an upper limit on the number of missions that the mercenary hunting team can accept at one time, there have been precedents of other teams accepting many missions at once, but no one has ever accepted more than five missions at the same time!

You know, these missions all have time limits! And since level one missions are simple to complete, the longest mission duration won't exceed five days...